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How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers

March 20, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers For the past couple months, we have been wanting to transform our backyard into a more grown up/teenager space.  The kids are growing up quickly and so we wanted more of a hang out spot than play area.  We got rid of our playhouse and that…

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Filed Under: backyard, DIY, home improvement, tutorial, yard

How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch

February 6, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch One of my favorite ways to update my house is changing out the lighting.  It’s such an easy way to update a room without having to do a lot and spending a lot of money.  You can really brighten up a room (literally) with a…

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Filed Under: craft room, DIY, home decor, home improvement, tutorial

Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets

January 23, 2022 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets We have a storage problem in our house.  We have a nice big house, with lots of open space but we do not have very big closets.  Our pantry is small and we don’t even have a coat closet.  So we have to come up with…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, tutorial, wood

No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet

December 10, 2021 by Kaysi 2 Comments

No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet Three days before Christmas last year I had a crazy idea, I decided that I wanted to rip out the carpet in my son’s bedroom and replace it with laminate flooring.  I’m not sure why I decided to do this 3…

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Filed Under: cleaning, DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour

How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor

May 24, 2021 by Kaysi 3 Comments

How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor Did you know that you can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor? Yup, it is true!  You can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor, as long as it is a level and solid surface.  You can…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour, tutorial

How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers

February 18, 2021 by Kaysi 1 Comment

How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers We have been in our house for almost 7 years and we have been wanting to replace the carpet that is on our stairs.  Our cats ruined it the first year of living here, so we have been talking about replacing it since then. We thought…

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Filed Under: DIY, home improvement, home tour, tutorial

Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme

January 14, 2021 by Kaysi 1 Comment

Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme The master suite, it’s my favorite please in my house.  It’s my sanctuary, my place to escape the world and relax. So when it comes to renovating, it’s the first place I want to change.  It’s the place that starts it all, I redo it and…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour

DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station}

February 22, 2020 by Kaysi 6 Comments

DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station} A couple months ago, I got an itch to start moving furniture.  That is always bad news for me, because it ends up snow balling and I end up changing up several rooms in the house.  Whenever I do it, I love the outcome, so I end up doing…

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Filed Under: craft room, DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, silhouette, tutorial, vinyl, wood

Cove Smart Security System

December 3, 2018 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Cove Smart Security System For several years now my husband and I have been talking about getting a security system. It seems like there are more and more break ins happening and we want to keep our house and family protected.  We really talked about getting a security system when there were a few break…

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Filed Under: home improvement, tutorial

Small Bathroom Remodel Ideas- Bathroom Shelves with Board and Batten

August 1, 2018 by Kaysi 3 Comments

Small Bathroom Remodel Ideas- Bathroom Shelves with Board and Batten We have a 3/4 bathroom downstairs and it is a very small bathroom.  When we first moved in, there was ZERO storage space and it drove me crazy.  It was definitely built to be a guest bathroom and not be a bathroom that someone uses…

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Filed Under: bathroom, DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, home tour, paint, tutorial, wood

Craft Room Ideas, Organization and Storage {Ikea Craft Room}

May 6, 2018 by Kaysi 12 Comments

We all need a place that we can call our own.  That space for me is my craft room.  I LOVE my craft room and love being in it.  Recently we moved our piano into my craft room and that forced me to reorganize a few things and eventually made me remodel the whole thing. …

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Filed Under: bakers twine, craft room, DIY, glue gun, home decor, home improvement, home tour, organizing, paint, silhouette, vinyl, wood

Built In Desk with Shelves for Craft Room or Office

May 3, 2018 by Kaysi 6 Comments

In my house we have a formal dining room but we have turned it into my craft room. We have been remodeling it this past two months and I am loving the changes that we have done.  In this formal dining room, there is a little nook that is about two feet deep and 4…

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Filed Under: craft room, DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, tutorial, wood

How to Build a Large Modern Barn Door

March 1, 2018 by Kaysi 3 Comments

Do you know what your style is?  I am gradually figuring out mine.  Back when we bought this house there was a lot of browns and traditional features with it.  Well as we have been living in it we have been updating it here and there and make things work.  We made a rustic barn…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, tutorial, wood

Home Tour- Before and After

February 3, 2018 by Kaysi 10 Comments

At the end of January last year I was going through some stuff and I could tell I was having some major seasonal depression (it was a crazy cold and long winter) and I knew that I needed to start a project to get me out of the funk.  What I didn’t know when I…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour

Tips on How to Build a Closet to Make a Room a Bedroom

February 2, 2018 by Kaysi 8 Comments

Do you have a room in your house that no matter how many times you rearrange it or declutter it or organize it, it is still a big disaster and drives you CRAZY?!?  Well that was my boys’ bedroom, which really was a bonus room.  It’s a HUGE room which is awesome but also caused…

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Filed Under: boys, DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, home tour, minecraft, paint, Pokemon, tips, tutorial, wood

Organized Laundry Room Makeover

September 13, 2017 by Kaysi 3 Comments

This post contains affiliate links. 7 months ago my husband and I started doing a remodel on our house.  It was built in 2010 so it is VERY beige, so we starting updating it and making it more gray and white.  We tiled our master bathroom and kids’ bathroom and I loved how it turned…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, organizing, paint, silhouette, tutorial, Uncategorized, vinyl

How to Paint Ceilings with a Wagner Studio Pro Paint Sprayer

June 1, 2017 by Kaysi 4 Comments

This is a sponsored post.  All opinions are 100% my own. For the past few years I have been looking for a paint sprayer to get (because I do a lot of painting, not many things in my house are their original color :D).  I knew that I wanted one that would work on big…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, paint, tutorial, Uncategorized

Tips on How to Find the Perfect Gray Paint Color from Sherwin-Williams

May 30, 2017 by Kaysi 4 Comments

My house was built in 2010, right when the dark browns and beige were super popular.  Everything in my house was beige, the walls, ceilings, tiles, carpet and finishes.  At first it didn’t bother me, but as we have been remodeling our house and adding more and more white and gray, the beige wall color…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour, paint, Uncategorized

Kitchen Makeover Ideas without a Major Renovation

May 2, 2017 by Kaysi 4 Comments

For the past 1.5 years my husband and I have been remodeling our kitchen and dining room area, so I wanted to show some kitchen makeover ideas and the process we went through.  When we moved in three years ago I was so excited for our kitchen, it had everything that I have ever wanted…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, kitchen, paint, Uncategorized

To Get a New Shower, That is the Question

April 5, 2017 by Kaysi 3 Comments

This is a sponsored post, all opinions are 100% my own. A lot of you might have seen my recent master bathroom makeover that we did a few weeks ago.  We didn’t completely gut our master bathroom but really just change out the finishes to change it up.  We redid the bathtub, the floor and the…

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Filed Under: bathroom, home improvement, Uncategorized

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